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Investment bankers are hitting the road to raise more than $15 billion across initial public offerings in the coming weeks, nervously eyeing market volatility as a standoff with Iran threatens a fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n
The success of a string of deals, led this week by a $2.23 billion IPO for ventilation and filtration systems provider Madison Air Solutions, will be closely watched. Bankers are looking to put choppy performance for recent debutants in the rear-view mirror, clearing a path for the mammoth SpaceX listing expected in June.<\/p>\n
Wall Street\u2019s push to take at least a dozen companies public in the next few weeks comes as a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to upend markets, which haven\u2019t yet appeared to factor in the potential rise in inflation that a lengthy and volatile conflict would bring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no such feeling as an \u2018all clear\u2019 in the current geopolitical backdrop,\u201d said John Kolz, global head of equity capital markets at Barclays Plc. \u201cRight now, everybody is a macro person, you have to be and that\u2019s why prepping to get in and out of the market when there\u2019s a semblance of a window is here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A dozen companies have filed their US IPO prospectuses publicly or started marketing deals in the six days since a ceasefire was reached, and five of them are set to price this week. As much as $4.6 billion may be raised by Friday, potentially making it the best week since Medline Inc.\u2019s $7.2 billion deal in December, data compiled by Bloomberg show.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThese are very scaled, mature businesses, a number of which are private equity-backed,\u201d said Michael Ventura, co-head of US ECM at Royal Bank of Canada. \u201cSellers have held these assets longer than expected, grown them more significantly than expected, and are now looking at exit valuations that are higher than they expected \u2013 it is no surprise they are being active.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, billionaire Bill Ackman kicked off formal marketing for the IPO of his closed-end fund and his hedge fund, and a convenience store operator, a real estate investment trust and a pair of health-care companies also entered the fray. On Friday, a pair of Blackstone Inc.-backed companies filed for IPOs, along with organic juice maker Suja Life Inc., satellite-based signals intelligence provider Hawkeye 360 Inc. and two other biotech firms.<\/p>\n
Marketing IPOs with an eye on post-listing performance has been tricky this year, even before the current conflict erupted. While the weighted-average return for the class of 2026 IPOs so far has been a 4.6% gain, outpacing a modestly lower S&P 500 Index, half of the 10 largest deals have wiped out more than one-quarter of their value, data compiled by Bloomberg show.<\/p>\n
In a week where investors and geopolitical analysts are on tenterhooks, bankers are using different tools to help shore up the process.<\/p>\n
As much as one quarter of Madison Air\u2019s targeted share sale has already been spoken for by investors, and the founder intends to buy $100 million of shares at the IPO price, its filings show. The offering was multiple times oversubscribed as of Friday, Bloomberg News reported.<\/p>\n
Lining up so-called cornerstone investors, as well as starting with more palatable valuations and offering a smaller pool of shares available to buy at launch, are all tools that bankers are considering making greater use of. That may be the case for companies seeking to IPO in April and May, according to Doug Adams, Citigroup Inc.\u2019s global co-head of ECM.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis can be particularly helpful in volatile markets to help deliver a successful IPO,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n
For now, the pipeline of companies weighing US listings is dominated by industries that are more insulated from the war, and uncertainty around artificial intelligence with health care and industrials companies making up a hefty portion of deals on the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndustrials for the moment is the new tech in terms of new issuance,\u201d said Barclays\u2019 Kolz. \u201cThere\u2019s a massive tech backlog that is skewed into the back half of the year but for now it\u2019s all about industrials and first or second derivative AI plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, the path forward for listing candidates will be challenging if outcomes for IPO candidates continue to diverge so sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t continue to have an open window where market performances are as bifurcated as they have been,\u201d said RBC\u2019s Ventura. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a sign of a healthy market when you go too long into an open window and have binary outcomes, i.e. a group of assets that\u2019s down 30% and a group that\u2019s up 30%.\u201d<\/p>\n
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